In a move to lessen if not prevent plagiarism among university students, Google is banning advertisements by essay writing companies and services from its advertising fold. The ban on these kinds of advertisements came after numerous complaints have been filed by university authorities who have numerous incidents of students submitting unoriginal or copied essays and other research reports.
This advertisement ban was welcomed by university authorities but not so much by writing companies who have been in the business of writing for pay activities. Moreso by freelancers who are employed by these companies. Claiming that their business is legitimate, the writing companies said that when they are engaged by students, who incidentally are mostly foreign students, they make it clear to their clients that they should not in any way claim or allude that the article these companies wrote are written by the students themselves.
I think Google is over reacting to the complaints of university authorities. I would have to side with the writing companies argument. After all, they too are legitimate companies which have the right to purchase advertising spots not only from Google, but from other online companies as well.
As for students, better save the name and particulars of the writing companies they are currently dealing with. They might lose valuable services provided by these companies if they don’t bookmark their sites. Sooner or later, you wouldn’t find a good link to a reliable writing company once Google bans advertisements of these companies.
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Richard Boyd on May 22, 2007 at 12:10 pm
A good reason for Live, Yahoo and all the other SE’s not to follow G’s lead :)
Loren Baker, Editor on May 22, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Another reason for these writing companies to use organic listings to help build relationships with students. It’s amazing to me that companies like Google have no problem banning paid ads, but targeting an industry in organic search is much more difficult and controversial.
I can’t say that this ban on AdWords ads for businesses centered around cheating on research and term papers bothers me.
If a student now wants to cheat, they’re going to have to search extra hard on Google to find these freelancers and companies, taking more of their time and energy. God forbid University students put effort into anything :)
Matt Keegan on May 22, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Good! As someone who writes professionally, I have never written term papers or other collateral simply because I felt that if I had to do all the research while I was in college, then so could they.
I doubt that this change will do much to stem the flow. Just go ahead and google a search and you’ll find enough willing writers out there to take on this type of work.
Loren Baker, Editor on May 22, 2007 at 1:49 pm
Right Matt, the day Google or another search engine takes the bold step of banning these services from their organic results will be much more of a powerful statement :)
Raj Dash on May 22, 2007 at 2:08 pm
And yet, there are still loads of blogspot sites running AdSense and whose content is adult but legitimate, but link directly to pr0n sites, and they don’t get banned. Hmmm. I questioned Matt Cutts on this and gave the standard Google response. And yet over a year later, the sites in question still have adsense.
Deaf Musician on May 22, 2007 at 5:50 pm
As long as they don’t ban sites with free essays, I am happy!
John Hewitt on May 23, 2007 at 3:26 pm
As a person who runs a writing site with Google ads, I say good riddance. My users have had nothing but trouble with these companies. Not only do they help students cheat, they often cheat writers out of their money. I had banned several of their sites manually, but I am happy to have them flushed from the system entirely so I no longer have to keep an eye on them.
Essay Town on May 31, 2007 at 2:12 pm
I am against this ban. its unfair.
http://www.essaytown.com
Bryant on May 31, 2007 at 10:06 pm
The person who left the Essay Town comment does not represent Essay Town. Essay Town actually SUPPORTS the ban, as it will weed out all of the fly-by-night, ripoff companies from Pakistan amd elsewhere, like FlashPapers.com, that have ruined the reputation of a legitimate industry by openly suggesting that students can turn in the papers that they buy from FlashPapers for academic credit. That is disgusting. Flash Papers is so fraudulent and unethical, they’ve earned their very own page at essayfraud.org:
http://www.essayfraud.org/fraud-alert.html
Custom essay on Jun 7, 2007 at 2:03 pm
It’s not fair. It’s a legitimate business like any other!
Essay Town on Jun 10, 2007 at 1:41 pm
google is acting strage. this is not business practice.
http://www.essaytown.com
Term Papers on Jun 12, 2007 at 6:18 am
Bryant is not associated with essaytown.com.
Essaytown.com doest not support this ban at all. We are against this ban. Google is now crossing the line.
Essaytown.com will never support this ban.
http://www.essaytown.com
Ryan Harris on Jun 13, 2007 at 12:36 pm
I have mixed feelings on this issue. As a compay that provides an alternative to buying papers, custom or plagiarized, I was using this keyword to drive traffic to my site. I am competing with writing services by providing a tool to help students write research papers and term papers using a new approach based on speed of writing, and finishing quickly. I think this will help my company in the long run because I may be able to be one of the few advertisers legitimately using this keyword for a commecial product. I still have to work with Google on this issue. However, as an entrepreneur, I get scared when business decisions are made for other than business reasons. What’s next?
KME Internet Marketing on Jun 14, 2007 at 7:05 am
While interesting and newsworthy, there’s likely to be little impact to the “supplier/consumer” equation, just impact to Google revenues (though just a blip to them). There are in fact many, many other channels and forums for Internet advertising (and supportin SEO/SEM techniques), that reach the buyers - especially if the buyers are working a little harder to find them. Established providers will also adjust their copy and business outlets to comply with Google’s guidelines, yet still serve the same audience. Perhaps Google should offer buyers better and more “certified” alternatives, like its own research and term paper assistive courses, guidelines and review services?
David on Jun 15, 2007 at 4:32 am
The cowardly buffoon who has posted the untrue claims that EssayTown opposes the ban works for a Pakistani outfit that is incredibly jealous of EssayTown’s success and honest business practices. He’s a liar and a waste of oxygen. If you’d like to communicate with me directly, simply use the question form at essaytown.com and ask for “Dave.”
Term Papers on Jun 15, 2007 at 4:00 pm
David is simply a useless person. He is in no way associated with essaytown.com. Please ignore him. I will repeat, we at essaytown will NOT support this ban at all!
http://www.essaytown.com
term paper on Jun 18, 2007 at 2:59 am
Absolutely unfair commitment from Google
The Bespeckled SEO on Jun 20, 2007 at 2:32 pm
I applaud Google’s decision and only hope that Yahoo, MSN and the rest of the SEs quickly follow suit.
Essay Writing on Jun 26, 2007 at 6:05 am
Dear Admin. Please remove all the spamming posts of essaytown.com and essayfraud.org. That scumbag has posted lots of identical messages hoping to improve his backlinks situation, we should not tolerate that bastard. Everyone should be aware that essaytown.com and essayfraud.org are run by the same group of scumbags.
Custom essays on Dec 13, 2007 at 7:17 am
I think it is not right! That is a business
! And as for using such services, so it is decision of student
!
Essays on Jan 15, 2008 at 11:43 am
I use a site called www.ukessays.com all the time and they sent out some marketing material before Christmas that said that the Google ban had improved their sales, (probably because of all the media, I suppose). But whenever I’ve used them, they’ve been good, and they get loads of press in the UK. In fact there on the BBC News site now.
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Jill on Jun 29, 2008 at 10:14 pm
It’s not a bad idea, many students have been scammed. Yahoo bans them too, other source: http://www.essayscam.org
custom essay on Aug 19, 2008 at 4:33 am
I can`t understand it, i think this is not right
robby on Oct 2, 2008 at 7:19 am
I am interested in a reliable writing service for research based on computing topics. if you can help with a NON-FRAUD site, email me at jones_zr@yahoo.com.au
Steven Bright on Oct 7, 2008 at 10:10 am
Essayplant.com is against the ban! We will never support it because it is unfair!
Custom Writing on Oct 7, 2008 at 10:13 am
The ban is not going to last long because there is no reason to ban custom writing companies.
Essay Writing on Oct 7, 2008 at 10:17 am
What will Google achieve with such a policy? it will only give other advertisers a chance to earn money off these custom writing companies.
http://www.urgentessays.com
Essay Writing Service on Oct 7, 2008 at 10:21 am
It is a way for Google to look more ethical. Only porn, weapons, drugs and custom essays appear to be on the ban list.
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